Now I mentioned a little surprise right? Well some of you may remember WAY back when I used to be a freebie hunter. I would spend hours each day searching and searching for freebies to share with you. When I started designing, I didn't have time to do both (well and still see my family, lol) so I had to pick one or the other. As you can tell, design won out.

Friday, January 14, 2011

This week I have been crafting, designing, cleaning and cooking. My friend Denise has been sharing some recipe sites and she has inspired me to cook something that takes more than 10 minutes, lol. Ok so I do usually cook a little better than that, but with 2 little girls in the house, I gave up on cooking "grown up" meals for a while and opted for quick and easy. Well now that the girls are a little bit older they can help a little instead of simply being attached to one of my legs. This week I tried this recipe:

It was amazing! It felt good to cook something so good. My DH was so happy that it had bacon and cheese that he even cleaned up the zillion dishes that I used. My girls... well, let's just say we made good use of their no thank you helpings for this one, lol. Neither of them likes any kind of squash.

I have tons of cook books that I am planning to pull out again. But I'd love to get some great recipe sites - where do you find amazing recipes?

I mentioned I designed something this week right? I had a lot of fun playing in Illustrator this week and made some really FUN patterns for you. I am publicly apologizing to Shari - our QC person who had to check these over for me! They make great patterns, but checking them over for QC must have been so fun, lol! Sorry Shari- you are the BEST!!!

I thought it would be a good idea to give you another preview so that you can really see what each of the full overlays look at - so here is another preview of the same product...

Oh imagine the beautiful papers you could make with those! EACH color on each overlay is on it's own layer. It will make it so EASY for you to customize it to match your kits! AND you can totally mix and match the layers - to make completely unique papers!

I had SO much fun making these this week that I actually couldn't stop. So I thought you might like to play with this one. You can grab it free with the link.

Friday, January 7, 2011

There are 6 fun paper patterns in this set to help you make pretty papers & elements a breeze!

Each overlay is available in 3 forms. Choose from layered psd files, layered tiff files, or individual png files. Each color on the overlay is on it's own layer to make your design process easier. I have used white & light grey as backgrounds for preview purposes - but they are transparent, layered files.